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4 flit jflonting Hf his Morning News Buiiding, Savannah, Ga. WEDXMSDAY. JUNK **. 1887. Reg.stered at the Pott Office in Savannah. ’~'hv' MiRNISo News is published every day in cJm- year, and is served to subscriber in the city, by newsdealers and carriers, on their own ac count. at 25 cents n week. $1 00 a month, $5 00 ior six months and $lO 00 for fine year. The Morni.no News, by mail, one month, fl 00: three months, $2 50; six months. $o 00; or.e year. $lO M. The Morning News, by mail, six times a week (without Sunday issuethree months, $2 On: six months. $4 00 oite year. $S 00. The Morning Sews, Tri weekly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridavs. or Tuesdays. Thurs days and Saturdays, three months, $1 25; six months. $2 50; one year. $5 00. The SfNDAV News, try mail, one year. S2 00. The Weekly Xews by mail, one year, $1 25. Subscriptions payable in advance Remit by postal order, cheek or registered letter. Cur rency sent by mail at risk of senders. Letters and telegrams should be addressed “Morning Xews. Savannah. Ga.” Advertising 1 rates made known on application. INDEX' TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Rule Lodge Xo. 12, I. O. OF. Special Notices— lmportant Notice of Pa tapsco Guano Company of Baltimore; Dividend Brush Electric Light and Power Company; Special Notice, John Wright. Cheap Column Advertisements Help Wanted; For Rent; For Sale; Strayed; Lost; Miscellaneous. Steamship Schedule —Ocean Steamship Com pany. Railroad Scheduls- Central Railroad. Auction Sales— Lemons, by I. D. Laßoche's Sons; Furniture, Groceries and Millinery, by D. R. Kennedy. Base Ball— Grocery Clerks vs. Amateurs. The Morning News for the Summer. Persons leaving the city tor the summer can have the Morning News forwarded by the earliest fast mails to any address at the rate of 25c. a week, $1 for a month or $2 50 for three mouths, cash invariably in ad vance. The address may be changed as often as desired. In directing a change care should be taken to mention the old as well as the new address. Those who desire to have their home paper promptly delivered to them while a way should leave their subscriptions at the Busi jcess Office. Special attention will be given *o make this summer service satisfactory and to forward papers by the most direct and .-quickest routes. Mr. Blaine is unfortunate. He ought not to have gone abroad until after the captured fogs episode. The Knights of Labor say that the Anar chists must go. The Knights of Labor have never said a more sensible thing. The man who is obliged to travel on the railroads during these hot days, understands •how a chicken feels in an incubator. Cincinnati has a secret society for pro viding poor girls with pretty dresses. Of course it is composed of young bachelors. The way to prevent ill-treatment of con victs is to punish those who are guilty of it. Resolutions 0 f condemnation do not pre vent it. A patriot thinks that the government ought to pay the expense of all delegates to political conventions. That surplus will be reduced, after awhile. If the weather in London yesterday was 95 hot as it was in Georgia, Queen Victoria's jubilee was warm enough without the aid of dynamite and other explosives. The fiery Republicans who weep because they can’t fight the war over should be placed in coolers. Otherwise they may dis appear by spontaneous combustion. The Clerks of the Superior Courts will hold a convention in Atlanta next month. It is understood that they wish some alter vtions made in the laws relating to fees. ■ Mary Anderson, the actress, doesn’t in tend to return to America until she is “old and ugly.” If she is to decide when she loses youth and beauty, she will never re turn. Ex-Gov. Bullock insists that the bogus Georgia bonds ought to be paid, the ex- Oovemor understands that they will not be paid, however, for he says that he doesn’t own any of the bonds and never expects to own any of them. Ben Butler raves and snorts over the proposition to return the captured Con federate flags. Perhaps he is afraid that the next proposition will be to return the spoons and other valuables taken from Southerners during the war. The Washington correspondents are pre paring another holiday for President Cleve land. They say that ih July, before he gods West, he will visit the mountains in West Virginia. He will not do any fishing, but will stay in the shade and try to keep cool. At the Ivy City race track, Washington, the other day, Miss Eustis, daughter of the Louisiana Senator, gave an exhibition o{ what she could do on a horse. She took long water jumps without the slightest hesita tion, and the fences and ditchos in splendid style. The spectators concluded that the “languid Southern girl” was not so languid after all. ■■■— -- Mr. H. L. White, of New York, writes to the World, indorsing the sentiments ex pressed by Gov. Gordon concerning the proposition to return the captured Confed erate flags. Mr. White isja veteran of the Union army. He says that the Governor’s sentiments signify a generous mind and a heart actuated bv noble impulses, in strong contrast to the jiosition taken by the North ern Governors. Preparations are lieing made to present a grand spectacle on Staten Island, N. Y., to Is? called “The Fall of Babylon,” On Sunday last, the Tower of Babel, which forms part of the scenery, was struck by lightning and badly injured. The original Tower of Bubol hail much worse luck, but its destruction didn’t cause lamentations much greater than those over the injury to the Stateu Island tower. In a paper read lie tore the Liverpool Astronomical Society, W. H. 8. Monck suggested that the puzzling climatic varia tions recorded by the rocks may have been produced tty the near approach to the earth of intensely hot stare. If he meant theatri al stare he was doubtless right. When they get hot because of compliments paid to other members of their companies, they generally cauto clupiges in the Climate. Georgia's Convict System. The convict system will doubtless occupy a large share of the attention of the Legislature at its session next mouth. The report that two convicts were shot at Oglethorpe camp 011 June -V because they refused to work on Sunday and attempted to escape, should be thoroughly investigated, and if found to bo true the contract of the lessee should be can celled. There is no law which permits a lessee to compel convicts to work on Sun days, and there is, therefore, no excuse for shooting convicts who attempt to escape be cause they are forced to work on those days. There is an impression in Georgia that the convicts in this State are very kindly treated, and that the laws for their protec tion in camps are complied with. If this story of a tragedy at Oglethorpe camp is true, however, this impression will undergo a speedy change, and the demand for the termination of the lease system, or at least a marked modification of the laws relating to it, will become much more imperative than it has heretofore been. Doubtless one of the reasons why the Legislature has been so slow in legislating for the convicts is the belief that they are being about as well treated under the lease system as they would be under any other, but if evidence is forthcoming that they are being whipped and shot without sufficient cause, and that they are being brutalized in ways that are known to heartless taskmasters and piti less guards it cannot act too promptly. Of course it will not do to assume that this Oglethorpe story is true, or that in other camps the convicts are inhumanly treated. The lessees should have a chance to meet whatever charges are brought against them, but they should lie shown no special consideration. They have every ad vantage in defending themselves, and the convicts have no one to present their side of the case. The Governor, it is true, is ready to act energetically when he is assured that there is necessity for action on his part, but it is not an easy matter for him to get at the truth respecting the actual state of affairs in the convict camps. The special committee of the House which is now engaged in investigating the convict system and its alleged abuses, should make every effort to get at the bottom facts. The people of this State, while they want violators of the law punished, do not want them subjected to cruelties of any sort. They want them cared for in acoordance with the humane laws which have been enacted for their pro tection. It seems that some of the members of the special committee have visited the camps without making known their official character, and have gathered some infor mation that will be valuable in aiding the committee in framing its aeport to the Legislature. They were induced to take this course, doubtless, by the belief that if it were known that they were members of an investigating commit tee the time condition of affairs at the camps would be hidden from them. The convicts, in the presence of their guards, would be afraid to make complaints of abuses, and they would be terrorized to such an extent that they would make statements showing their treatment to be satisfactory us have the whole truth respecting the convict business, and if it is found that the lease system is a bad one, and that it tends to make convicts more hardened than they are, let some other system be ■substi tuted for It. It is difficult, it is true, to find a system to which there are not serious ob jections, but doubtless it is possible to devise one that will tend to reform convicts which are callable of being reformed and will not make the hardened criminals worse than they are. • Turning the Tables. The action of the Cincinnati Board of Public Affairs in turning out of office all Democratic employes under its control has waked up the Cincinnati Democrats. The Duckworth Club, a leading Democratic organization, held a meeting the other night, and adopted a resolution calling on Democratic officials in the city to dismiss all Republican employes under them. The preamble to the resolution sets forth that the Democratic party is in control of the Federal'Offices in the city. This condi tipn of affairs, continues the preamble, was brought about by a most desperate fight, conducted for a long so: ies of years by the rank and file of the Democratic party against fearful odds and opponents, who resorted to any means to accom plish their .ends, even to the “un lawful use of the officeholders and the United States troops.” It is then point ed out that men have been appointed to the heads of departments to represent the I >em ocratic party, and that therefore Demo crats have a right not only to exiiect, but to demand recognition. As to the qunliticn tious of mon, it is urged that “no man is so competent but that liis equal can be found.” Good men, however, the preamble says, should not be dismissed from the public service to make room for incom|>etent men. Nevertheless, ,if possible, none but Demo- crate should be on watch. The resolution is ns follows: “Itexol red, That it is the sense of the Duckworth Club that all Democratic officials who retain un der them Republican employes, or allow their subordinates to do so, to the exclusion of honest, willing and competent Democrats, are deaerving of censure; and that, accord ing to our ideas of party loyalty, all Repub licans should be turned out and Democrats put in their places.” (Jopies of the resolution were ordered to be sent to all Democratic public officers, with the respectful request that Democracy be mado one of the qualifications for ap pointment to, and retention in, office. The action of the Duckworth Club was in tended to turn the tables on the Blaine Club, which induced the Board of Public Affairs to dismiss Democratic employes. The more Democrats thero are in office the better for the country, for the Democratic party is pledged to give the peo ple honpst government, and it is faithfully carrying out every one of its promisee, but it is hardly probable that the request of the Duckworth Club will bo complied with. The Democratic jiarty is engaged in giving cavil service reform a fair trial, and the present outlook is that the people will sus tain it. Congressman Blount, of the Sixth Geor gia district, thinks that it is time for Con gress to take steps looking to the erection of anew executive mansion. For a long time he was opposed to expending money for im provements in the White House, but last winter, while attending a Presidential re ception, he sat down on a chair witli broken springs. He then and there resolved not to oppose future efforts to refurnish or re model thp White House He wishes the present building to lie preserved as far as possible liecauae of its historical associa tions, but he' will cheerfully advocate the erection of anew Presidential dwelling that will bo creditable to the people. THE MORIN US G NEWS: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1887. The McGlynn-George Combination. It is nbw clear that Dr. McGlynn dos not intend to go to Rome. He could not get there within the time to which he is limited unless he were to start at once. Doubtless he ex pects to lie expelled, and it is probable that he wants to be. He has attracted so much attention since assuming his present posi tion that ho no doubt thinks he can get along without the church. He has become puffed up with the idea that he is a very great man, and perhaps thinks that if he contin ues in his present course he will make for himself a name and place in history. It is not yet clearly determined whether he has a real following, or whether the crowds which gather when he is announced to speak are drawn by curiosity alone. In a great city New York there is a very large dissatisfied element, and from this ele ment are drawn the supporters of McGlynn and George. It is not improbable that when McGlynn’s relations with the Roman Catho lic Church are severed ho will cease to be an attraction. A good many Catholics are now among his followers, but when he < ’cases to lie a priest of that church the chances are that his following will quickly become very much smaller. Both McGlynn and George are being watched with a great deal of interest by those who find the study of social problems and revolutions interesting. They arc’curi ous to see what the outcome of the agitation these two men have inaugurated will bo. It must be admitted the McGlynn-George o mibination is a rather strange one, and that the extent of the support it gets in New York affords food for reflection. Mr. Randall’s Complaining Friends. Some of Mr. Randall's political friends are complaining that there is a disposition in the Democratic jiarty to persecute him. This'is a mistake. Nobody wnnts to perse cute him or to drive him out of the Demo cratic party. All that is desired is that he shall not obstruct the Democratic party in making needed and promised reforms. There is a pretty general demand that Mr. Randall shall not be given the chair manship of the Appropriations Committee, or of any other important committee, and why? Simply because he will use the power thus Conferred upon him to prevent the Democratic majority from reforming the tariff. That is what he did in the last Congress, and that is what he will do again if he is given the opportunity. The Democrats have 155 members in the House, 1 and of these 120 favor tariff reform and 35 are protectionists. Mr. Randall leads these protectionists, and, acting with the Republicans, is able to prevent the 120 Democrats from doing anything in the way of reforming the tariff. The position of those who condemn Mr. Randall’s course is this: He claims to be a Democrat, and yet refuses to act with the great niajority of his party upon the most important issue before the oopntry. Ought he to be placed in a position which will enable him to assist the enemies of his party in carrying out thoir views with respect to this Issue? Democrats say no. They claim that if he cannot act in harmony with his party his hands should not be strengthened to oppose it. He must be treated, so far as the tariff is concerned, as an enemy. This cannot be construed into a persecution of Mr. Randall. It is only protecting the party against him. Mr. Randall has been promi nent in the House for many years, and Mr. Carlisle, if he is elected Speaker again, will dislike very much to ignore him, but as between Mr. Randall’s feelings and the wel fare of the Democratic party, he ought not to hesitate a moment. His duty is to look after the interests of the party. Capt. W. P. Black, senior counsel for the condemned Chicago Anarchists, seems to love dogs as much as it is said he loves the dynamite throwers. At his home in Park Ridge, 111., he and his family made a hospi tal, into which halt, lame and bruised dogs were gathered and fed. At first the neigh bors simply laughed, but when the collec tion of dogs grew to be about fifty in num ber it became a matter of serious concern. The children of the neighborhood were in constant -danger of attack, and the con tinued barking and howling disturbed the quiet to such a degree that emphatic pro tests were made. The protests being of no avail, open war was finally declared, which, after many weeks, culminated in the passing of an ordinance by the Park Ridge trustees making it an offense for any, one to keep more than seven dogs. Forced, therefore, to dispose of his pets, Capt Black hired a druggist to poison forty-six of them. Congressman Blount, of the Sixth Geor gia district, is in Washington. In an inter view with a New York Star reporter ho said that he did not believe Senator Col quitt would accept, the position of Secretary of the Interior, even if the President should offer it to him. Regarding the alleged growth of protection in this State he said that the doctrine was making no headway. A number of newspapers, he continued, were pressing it, but it was not thriving. The Georgia delegation in Congress were unanimously in favor of tariff reform, were elected on that issue and pledged to its un compromising support. Congressman Blount is right with regard to protection in Georgia. The New York Times notes a fact that has boon known in the South for some time. It says that the representative Southern business man is a much more frequent visitor to New York this year than he has been at any time since before the war. It isn’t on sightseeing nowadays that the Southern visitor is bent; the absorbing prosperity of the South has given him a new purpose, and in every department of Northern trade the man from Dixie is to lie met driving bargains, making investments, or arranging for the development of some new “go-ahead" scheme that shall further enrich and upbuild his section. “Buck” Taylor, Buffalo Bill’s cowboy who dislocated his thigh a short time ago, is be ing lionized by the Londoners. They send him quantities of good things to eat, and his condition is bulletined every day. This treatment of “Buck” leads a London j>aper to sny that the three luckiest things that can happen to a man are to be an cowboy, and to have one’s leg broken, re may now be expected that the American snobs who visit London hereof tar will claim to be cowboys and use a crutch. During the summer session of the General Assembly a member of the House of Repre sentatives will introduce a bill which he be lieves will solve the convict question. His plan is to concentrate the convicts at some healthy jioint and put them to manufac ing guano. The State is to sell the guano to Georgia farmers at $ a ton, and to all others for as much as can be obtained. The objection is that persons now engaged in manufacturing guano will not quietly sub mit to convict competition. CURRENT COMMENT. Tone of the Southern Press. From the .Yew York World (Bern.) The renqierate and patriotic tone of the Southern press in regard to the flag episode ought to bring a sense of shame to some of the le-s case-hardened of the Northern ranters for political effect Let Us Hope Not. From the .Veto York Star (Dem.) Is it possible that there is another Butler cam paign in the dim distance? The Butler Club at Boston has blossomed into sudden activity un der the guardianship of the same ola Col. Plympton who was so bumptiously confident with respect to the immense vote Butler would poll in 18S4. Curious Changes Predicted. From the Yew York Herald (Ind.) But now that labor hft3 come to the front and asked the people some pretty tough questions, why the people are bound to answer them, and that brings out the firing all along the line. The working classes have made us all think, and the man who lives twenty years longer will see some mighty curious changes in this old world of ours. But it Will Never Come to Pass. From the Memphis Avalanche(Dem.) Should it ever come to pass that Blaine occu pied the Presidential chair with Fairchild as Secretary of War. Sherman Secretary of the Treasury, Tuttle Secretary of State, Chandler Secretary of the Navy. Reid Secretary of the Interior, and Murat Halstead Attorney General, it will be about time for the people of the South to emigrate to the south pole. BRIGHT BITS. The laziest man in the country has been dis covered in Connecticut. He has’s I,soodeposited in the savings bank, but prefers to live on cold victuals rather than go to tbe exertion of draw ing enough of his capital to buy a square meal. —Burlington Free Preen. It was something like a breach of etiquette, the other day. when Lady Churchill asked Red Shirt if he liked London, and the slaughter house fiend replied: “Gimme two bits—me raise h And Lady Churchill replied: “Ah. you poor thing—so like Randy.”— Omaha Bee. “It’s no use talking, old man. It would be simple folly for me to try to make up with her. She 11 never forgive me no matter what I say, for I told her her new tailor-made suit did not become her.” "Humph: 1 didn’t know it was as serious tut that.” —Trrtcn Topice. The editor of a French journal, iu discussing an alliance between his country and Russia, said: "For more than fifty years the burning of Moscow caused a coldness on the part of Russia towards France.” The freezing of Napoleon's retreating army gave rise to heated expressions, we suppose. -Texas Siftings. Mbs. Buckrum—How’s dat baby ob you’n? Yo’ wife was a-sayin’ tudder day ez how she hadn't named it yit. Reckon she call it arter yo’, ob course. Mr. Hodge Crabtree—Waal, no’m, only pa'tly. She goin’ call "im Willyum Crabtree, Willyum arter her brudder Bill, and Crabtree arter me.— Harper's Bazar. Two of our little folks were seated by the table a few evenings since, watching a moth which was fluttering around the lamp. They said nothing till it flew into the flame and was scorched. "0 Berty,” cried the younger, “it hasn't any eves, has it?” "I ’spect not,” said Berty “Why didn't God make him some?” “Oh, spect he forgot it, or else it jumped about so he couldn't fix ’em in.”— Our Best Words. House-hunter (to agent's clerk) — But this house faces due north. Mr. Smart told me it had a southern exposure. Clerk—Did he? Well. lam sure he thought he was telling the truth. He's not the man to de ceive anybody. You see, he is a patriot; that’s what he is. He knows no North and no South, and, between you ana me, I suspect he's a trifle shaky on East and West.—Boston Transcript. Miss Gushington—Do you go to the moun tains or the shore this summer, Mr. Foog? Fogg—Well, really, I haven't thought much about it, but I shall most likely go to the moun tains as usnal. Miss Gushington—Oh, I should think you’d rather go to the beach. Do you know that I think the sea-beach is perfect paradise ? Fogg—Yos: the style of dressing at the beach does remind one of the fashions prevalent in paradise. —Boston Transcript. Omaha Man 1 -I see that Corcoran, the phi lanthropist, has been stricken with paralysis, and has slim chance of recovering. Chicago Man—Well, that's too bad: but he has not kept up his record lately; I told him he ought never to have loft Chicago. Omaha Man—Left Chicago I Did Corcoran, the banker, ever live there? Chicago Man (in disgust)—Oh, I thought you meant Harry Corcoran, who used to pitch for the Chicago nine.— Omaha World. “Do you understand about note3 of hand?” asked one of the market whitewashers of a stand keeper the other day. “I think so.” ‘‘Wall 1 had a feller’s n*te for S2O. It ain’t due ‘till de Ist of July, but last nite he paid me half of it.” “And you indorsed the amount on the back of the note?” “I did, hey? Was dat de way to do?” “Of course. How did you do?” “Cut de note in two and gin him half‘'’—De troit PYee Press. PERSONAL. Charlotte Cushman was the daughter of poor people. Tne Empress Carlotta is improving in health, and it is thought will soon become entirely sane. Dr. Talmage thinks the nickel is glorified in this country at the expense of the men who make newspapers. Georoe W. Smalley writes that Mrs. James Brown Potter's excursions into the Provinces prove a great success. Okorqe Bancroft, the historian, never fails to pass an early hour of the w arm weather umoug his rose bushes. Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks preached on Sun day his last sermon in Boston prior to sailing for England for a vacation. Col. Robert O. Inoebsoll considers Joe Jef ferson the greatest living American actor, and he is not far out of the way. Anew Swedish singer seems destined to create a sensation in the musical world. Her name is Sigrid Arnoldsen. She is only 22 years old. Charles Scribner is at the Hotel do Hollands in Paris. He has been making arrangements for L serial story in his magazine by Robert Louis Stevenson. Fanny Davenport has left the stage to write a book, and the heathenish Chicago Mews re marks in a low twitter that "literature loses as much as the stage gains.” By the death of the late Dr. Perry Mr. Wil liam R. Sever, of Plymouth. Mass., became the oldest living graduate of Harvard. Ho was 96 years old one day last week. Tre junior Senator from Kansas. Preston R. Plumb, was a printer’s devil in Ohio, where he was (torn. He cast his lot in Kansas thirty-one years ago, and has achieved a moderate compe tency. Walter Besant's acquaintance with Mr. James Rice began with the chance contribution of an article by the former to Onre A Week, the periodical of which Mr. Rice was owner and editor. His trial is said to be costing Jacob Sharp, of New York, over OKI, and it is added that the amount will bo increased to nearly $."00,000 should he have to carry the case to the Court of Appeals. Minnie Hack's father was a German ami a shoemaker, In the most straightened circum stances. Her voice early attracted the attention of one of New York’s richest men, who had it cultivated. Ex-Gov. Pattibon's portrait is to be placed In the State gallery at Harrisburg, Penn., by the side of those of his predecessors. It was painted by Mr. Bates, of Philadelphia, who was a school mate of Mr. Puttison. Tfierk is a farmer named Bill living near Say brook, Conn. This of itself is not a remarkable circumstance, but the fact that his full baptis mal name is Kansas Nebraska Bill iR worthy of notice. He is called Nebby for short. Prof. David Swing advocates the building of two large cathedrals in Chicago, namely, n waif’s mission tmlldiog and oj large hotel for working girls; and in these eathedrals he would like to see Benevolence installed as the presid ing bishop. . There are hopes in San Francisco that Lord Aberdeen will tarry on that coast long enough to !k‘ present at the celebration of the Queen's Jubilee, which will there be elaborately con ducted. Lord Aberdeen was perhaps the most popular British Viceroy ever sent to Ireland, unri as he journeys through this country the American friends of home rule will remember that fact and give him cordial greeting. James 11. Macdonald, the new Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, has ap income of $40,000 a year on an investment which cost him lem than sß*o. When (Apt Moore discovered the Oolby mine in the great Gogebic iron range he bol-Tu third interest to Macdonald £*- •> iw del lars. The land is now worked by a company which pays a royalty of 40c. a ton. The roy alty for the present year amounts to SiS',- 000, a third of which goes to Lieut. Got. Mac donald. Content to Try One. From the Philadelphia Call. A man with a purple nose was fishing for porgies off South street wharf last Saturday and suddenly fell into the water. A fellow fisherman of benevolent aspect promptly hauled him out. laid him on his back, and then began to scratch his head in a puzzled way. "What's the mutter*' asked the excited by standers; “Why don't you revive him I" "There are sixteen rules to revive drowned persons,” said the benevolent man, "and I Knew 'em all. but I can't just call to tniud which comes first." At this point the drowned man opened his eyes and said faintly : "Is there anything about giving brandy in the rules?" "Yes.” "Then never mind th* other fifteen." The Vanderbilts and Temperance. From the Cl&xfatcA Leader. I have recently seen it stated that Mr. Corne lius Vanderbilt, of the Central railroad, has re fused to let a room in a large building near the Forty-second street Grand Station, New York city, for a saloon, and wished there were no saloons within an eighth of a mile of a station. This is very creditable to Mr. Vanderbilt. For a man of his millions he is one of the most active men in all Christian work and charities. When his father was president of the New York Central, the nephew of a friend of mine rented the eating house at Utica at 88.000 a year. A short time after he took it Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt came along and asked him how much rent he paid. He told. Mr. Vanderbilt said: “You sell liquor?" "Yes sir.” “Well if you will not sell them you shall have the place at sl,looa year." “Agreed!" Mr. Vanderbilt was wise. He did not want spirits sold where the men who had charge of the trains could’step in for drinks. Why She Married a Poor Man. One of the greatest belles and heiresses in Philadelphia, and a beauty besides, married a rather good-looking young man without business or a penny. She had been courted assiduously by one of the greatest beaux in town, a rich young man, with fortune, pres tige and everything back of him except that he was gay and had sown an immense crop of wild oats. He sent her the most expensive presents, which she would not accept. Scores of influential friends tried to help on his cause, and the most skilful female diplomats tried to induce her to discard the young man, who had nothi*: and no friends but herself. Her own family, with an exception, did every thing to induce her to prefer the rich suitor. Young as she was, and with all society making a pet of her, she gave up everything—gave up society, gave up home, gave up every luxury and fascination that women are .supposed to hold dear—and married the man of her choice. And she is happy—far happier than many who are “in the swim.” When someone said to her: "Why did you make the choice you did ? Why refuse so much that mo3t girls value dearly?" she replied: “I married for two things charac ter and morality. My husband had them both and the other didn’t. I loved and respected one, the other I could jot." A Stage Incident. FVo m thf Boston Courier. “I saw something in New York the other day," Miss Covington observed to the editor, ‘ 'that made me almost reconciled to being plain. ” "That would mean little in the case of one with your good sense and small reason for being discontented with your good looks,” he replied with rather a ponderous attempt to be gallant. M iss Covington waved .her hand in deprecia tion of any such bald flattery. "It was on a Fifth avenue stage," she said. “There was a lovely girl sitting next to the door. She was really a remarkably pretty girl, and she had on a beautifully fitting gown. One of the passengers who was’at the other end of the stage, got up to go out, aid when he came to the door he put a hand on each side of the door way, as if he wanted to steady himself. Then he stooped down as though he were going to step out, and as he did so he suddenly turned his head and kissed the pretty girl. Of course it was done, and he was out as quick as a flash. " “And what did she do?” “Why. she was completely dazed. She said: ‘Why, that man kissed me!’ and she hardly seemed to know what had happened to her. It was the most outrageous thing I ever knew." f "And all the women in the stage," the editor observed, “were indignant at the ruffian.” * "Of course they were!” "And not at all of the opinion that the girl was at all to blame?" “Of course not! If you think in your horrid cynical way,” Miss Covington continued with increasing warmth, “that we were jealous of her good looks and so blamed her, you are sim ply wholly mistaken, and that is' all there is about it." "And you were glad, I understood you, that you were plain?" “Well," Miss Covington replied, “it made me reconciled, that is all." Omnia Vincit Amor. I met a girl upon the street— That is, 1 think she was a girl, And yet I am not sure, for tho’ Her eye was bright And step so light, The hair that o’er her brow did go In bang and curl, In wave and flow, That fell about her face so sweet, "Was white as snow. O was she young or was she old? Was she a grand or a maid? I swear I’d really like to know, For when she spoke, Some chord awoke Within my heart, and thrilled me so I’m half afraid That Cupid's bow Has twanged and yet you have been told Her hair s like snow. O was she sixty or sixteen? Was she still in the market, or Upon the shelf ? A rosy glow Was on her cheek Where dimples seek To hide from sight, yet plainer show Themselves therefor, While brighter grow Her eyes, altho Y tbey shine, I ween, ’Neath locks of snow. What's that? White hair is all the rage. And young and pretty girls now bleach Their tresses till a "holy show" They make of youth. Well, in good sooth I'm glad you told me, for—speak low— t No use to preach— From top to toe I worship her, and shall, till Age Brings its own snow. M. N. B. At a Low Ebb. From the Arkansaw Traveler, “J. Ableson Peters,’’ said the managing editor of a great daily, glancing at a card which had just been hapded him. f'fthevy him up." A few- moments laterm man so conscious of bis unimpressiveness that he made painful off orts to he impressive snapped into the room. He was dressed like an undertaker, and, bowing to the editor, presented him with a sort of pair, bearer's smile. "You have, of course, road my paper," said the visitor, as he lifted his coat tails and seated himself. "What paper do you represent?" "The Hoganville Forum. I urn the humorist a Of course you have road ex not." the editor cruelly replied. Ilarnplke Pebble republinued an B this week. Believe I've got a v." a small sheet, flirted the creases pointed to an article headed "A n Our beading Merchant." "I e other night while my wife was . I can always write better when I am alone.” "So can I, and I have considerable work to do at present,'' the grgat editor renlled. ,r YeB, much better," the humorist replied. “I am growing out of foolish dialogue and ain getting down to sententious merit. I think that every smile should be accompanied by a health ful suggestion; every laugh by a thought. As I make progress in this direction I find that ray work is road by a more select class. I used to write for minstrels and circus men. but now I write for philosophers. Now, to show von how tar above my former self 1 am getting I will re late a little inftdonb” “You’ll have to excuse me—” "Only take me a minute. This morning I went over to the circus ground and applied for admission, but, do you know, sir. that I was re fused? I had gotten so high above the circus that the fellow, to ret even w Ith me, refused to let i*c look at his show. Then a good idea oc curred to me. I thought that I would come (around and let you interview me on the subject. Capitol, don't you thtuk ?" 1 ‘‘Capital effrontery, ye*. You must excuse me, pr rather I shall be pleased to excuse you." “Got a circus ticket about your clothes any where ? "Close the door after you, please." "Give me a circus ticket and I'll send you an article. No? Got none? Is It possible? Sitting right here almost within sight of the tent and got no tickets? I must say that journalism in this town Is at a low ebb." ITEMS OP INTEREST. Addisox Csmmack, says the New York Times. was one of the well-known New Yorkers who profited by the smasli-up of the Chicago clique wheat deal Although the net annual income of the government on imports from Canada is nearly $8,000,000, vet in the Dunkirk. N. Y„ district it cost sl2 to collect sl, and in the Montana dis trict it cost $l6B 27 to collect sl. The dudes of Chicago appear to possess more originality of conception and vigor of execution in the matter of dress than dudes in general. A newspaper of that city lias discovered one of the inane fraternity who decorates his whiskers with scarlet ribbons. The stories of the success of Buffalo Bill in London, both theatrically and socially speak ing, have not been one whit exaggerated. All the letters from London are in the same vein. One letter from Cody himself tells of his future plans. They embrace a fail season in Paris and a winter season in the ruins of the Coliseum in Rome! Imagine the cowboys of the wild West cavorting about the huge circle in which the Roman gladiators fought. Buffalo Bill has en gagements for three years in Europe, each of which is worth a half million in profits. The right to manufacture and sell the proprie tary medicines owned by the heirs of the late Dr. John Bull, of Louisville, Ky.. was purchased at public sale Wednesday, in Louisville, by a leading patent medicine firm in Cincinnati for $70,000. The income from these medicines was at one time between $75,000 and SIOO,OOO. Day ton, 0., Nashville, Tenn., aDd New York city were represented atthe sale. Louisville was the next highest bidder at SOO,OOO. The large sum realized was a surprise to the heirs, who fancied, it is said, that only about $20,000 would be realized. It is said mahogany was first known to Euro peans through the fact that Sir Walter Raleigh, when at Trinidad in 1595, used planks of it to re pair one of his vessels. The samples thus car ried to England were much admired, but for over 100 years it was put to no practical use. In 1720, h'owevr. a Dr. Gibbons, of London,, re ceived a few mahogony planks from a friend in the West Indies, and employed a cabinet maker to work them up. From that time to the pres ent the wood has been a staple article of com m?ree. So far the supplies have practically all come from Spanish America, but there is some possibility that other sections may contribute to the supply. Mahogany, though of an inferior quality, has been snipped from Africa, and cer tain parts of India have proved to be adapted to it3 growth. Mdhoganyis of slow growth. The Paris correspondent of the Lancet writes: “It is somewhat ghastly that one of the official medical advisers to the administration of the Opera Comique should be the Professor of Pub lic Health at the School of Medicine. Perhaps this calamity will prompt him to ascertain whether there are any other duties attached to the post than those which consist in applauding the actors once or twice a month, and occasion ally prescribing orange-flower water for a' lady of the troupe suffering from her nerf.i. The papers published a note upon an examination of the blood of the victims, said to have been made at the morgue bv M. Brouardel, and which would show that death occurred in three differ ent ways: (1) from fright: (2) from asphyxia by carbonic acid: (8) by asphyxia from carbonic oxide. Apparently no one was crushed to death, which is scarcely likely." The German poet Bod ens ted t. relates in a re cent article that he first met Turgeneff at Munich in 1860, and found him a most genial man. He was anxious to be introduced to Paul Heyse, with whom he subsequently corres eonded. nnd in subsequent visits to Munich he ecame acquainted with most of the literary tribe in the Bavarian capital. The Russian nov elist, was pleased to find that his German col leagues were familiar with translaions of some of his works, but he was singularly free from vanity. He spoke of his first poetic efforts, which had no success, which did not come to him till he turned to prose; and he regretted that he could not have succeeded as a poet, be cause the highest things are inaccessible to prose. For instance, be said, we could, not con ceive of Goethe's masterwork in prose. "Faust" was his favorite noem. and the first part of it he knew almost entirely by heart. A brilliant wedding which took place in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday, was that of Mr. Bland Ballard, son of the late Bland Ballard, of the United States Circuit Court, and Miss Adele Shreve, youngest daughter of Mrs. Belle Sheri dan Shrevp. who as Miss Belle Sheridan will he remembered as the famous Louisville beauty of ante bellum days. The bride's costume wSs an elaborate one of white satin and lace, with a veil of beautiful old lace. Mrs. Shreve, the mother of the bride, is still a beautiful woman, and belongs to a family of beaiftiful women, of which her daughter, the bride, is a perfect ex ample. The young couple have gone on a bridal tour to the East. A notable wedding took place in Louisville on Tuesday, the con tracting parties being Miss Susie Brent Haggin and Mr Horace Cade Prince, representatives of two of the oldest and proudest families in the South. CApt. Wynn, who commanded the Sumter Light Guards, was killed at the battle of Gettys burg. One morning, says the Americas (Ga.) Recorder, the one after that battle, his wife, who lived in this place, entered her parlor, where upon the wall had hung a handsome painting of her husband. As she glanced up she was horror-stricken on seeing that the painting had fallen from the wall, and, in doing so. the face had been pierced by a chair post which stood beneath where it had hung. Rushing from the house, she went at once to a neighbor and related the occurrence, adding that she firmly believed the Captain had been killed in the fight of the day previous. On the arrival of the train news of the battle was brought, and among the first names in the list of those killed was that of her gallant husband. The strangest feature about the killing, however, was that he had been shot in the face in the identical spot where the cl) air-post had pierced the canvas. Mention has been made by us more than once of the invention of a cable by M. Fortln-Herr maun, of France, by which telephonic commu nicatidli can.be had with distant points. It was over the newly-invented cable that the King of Belgium was able during the winter to hear at Brussels the rendering of an opera at the Grand Opera House in Paris. The agent of M. Fortin- Herrmann has suggested to P. T Barnum to join in an enterprise by which the Grand Opera performances can be transmitted nightly from Paris to New York. The estimate for the coble is $15,000,000. The company proposes to charge 200 persons the sum of $5 for each act of the opera given, and to use the cable during the day for ordinary business betwren the countries The Bridgeport (Conn.) Standard, which print;! the agent’s letter to Mr. Barnum, says that the veteran showman has instructed his Paris agents to investigate the affair. The story smacks of certain advertising methods, but is given by us for what it is worth, and as it ap pears in the Standard. A manuscript of great rarity and interest was sold the other day at the Ilotol Drouot for a high price. It was an essay written by the great Napoleon in his college days. It bore this date and the occasion of the composition, having been written in 1788, when young Bouaparte was passing his summer holidays at Ajaccio The essay was a history of Corsica, and it occu pied eight pages of close MS. It is full of bad grammar, and abounds in instances of bad spelling, and is, moreover, written in fervid ad miration of the Jacobinism which was then prevalent in France. This student's theme was ultimately knocked down for 5,500 francs Autograph collectors know how rarely well authenticated Napoleonic MSS. cornea into the market. Bonaparte wrote a crabbed, illegible hand, and even at the zenith of his power had never quite mastered the language of the ueo le he governed. His grammar was often de fective. and he was too autocratic to respect the rules at orthography. M. Bourrlenne did niost of his writing, and from long practice Jcnow how to accurately reproduce his direc tions. 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